"exercise." Lately, due to overblown billboard and radio advertising, your answer might have even been "surgery." If these were really the magic answers the advertisers wanted you to believe they are, then why don't they work for everyone? Why would anyone go to the extreme of abdominal surgery for weight loss? Just don't do it! Put surgery and crisis care last on your list!
You may have a problem with excess weight because your body has been triggered into a functional "survival mode physiology." In "survival mode physiology," your body keeps wanting to store excess weight When your body's information-processing-pathways are confused, your whole body responds to food differently than normal. If your body reacts as if it were in a mode of survival –needing to save and store fat– then it is only doing so because that is what it would do in a real, desperately needed survival crisis! Your body survives perfectly, but not in your long-term best interests.